An attempt to use Postmodernism to confront issues of current socio-political concern.
This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a proliferation of books in recent years representing the domain of contemporary childhood as threatened, ...
A collection of key works in the emerging field of cultural policy.
While others argue with more or less cogency about the fundamental pathology of the Zionists or the anti-Zionists, of the Islamists and nationalists, or the anti-Islamists or anti-nationalists, David Shulman has dissented in the ...
Global in scope, but refusing a familiar totalizing theoretical framework, the essays in The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital demonstrate how localized and resistant social practices—including anticolonial and feminist ...
In his Nietzsche's Corps/e: Aesthetics, Politics, Prophecy, or; the Spectacular Technoculture of Everyday Life, Waite begins with Georges Bataille's claim that “Nietzsche's position is the only one outside of communism” (1996, 1).
At the same time, researchers began to rewrite the history of UMs by developing typologies and analyzing political strategies (Bennett 1992, 1993; Farrera Araujo and Prieto Hernández 1986; Hernández 1987; Perló and Schteingart 1984; ...
No single book has encompassed the vast scope of Edward Said's erudition quite like Power, Politics and Culture - a collection of his interviews from the last three decades.
This title was first published in 2002: Examining problems that have caused much debate within political science, this book seeks to identify a proper place for the analysis of culture and values within political science.
Through a wide-ranging study of labour in the cultural industries, this book critically evaluates how various sociological traditions - including critical theory, governmentality and liberal-democratic approaches - have sought to theorize ...
CNN (Creative Communities Network) (2012) Cultural Indicators: Measuring Impact on Culture, Information Paper prepared ... and wellbeing of a community', Community QualityofLife Indicators: Best Cases V (Springer: Netherlands), 319–338.